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Historic Landscape Preservation Grant Program


The Historic Landscape Preservation Grant Program funded 113 landscape preservation projects in 71 municipalities, from 1998 to 2003. While the grant program is not currently funded, please contact the DCR Historic Landscape Preservation Initiative for technical assistance on historic landscape projects in your community.

 


Summary of Projects Funded

Municipality

Project Title

FY

Grant Award

Adams

Maple Street Cemetery Preservation Plan and National Register Nomination

2001

$28,000

Adams

Maple Street Cemetery Rehabilitation

2002

$273,252

Amesbury

Woodsom Farm Cultural Landscape Report and National Register Nomination

2000

$25,000

Amherst

West Cemetery Preservation Planning Project

1999

$20,000

Amherst

West Cemetery Rehabilitation

2000

$100,000

Arlington

Winfield Robbins Memorial Gardens Restoration, Phase I

1998

$37,800

Arlington

Winfield Robbins Memorial Gardens Restoration, Phase II

1999

$49,331

Ayer

Ayer Town Hall Landscape Rehabilitation

2001

$30,000

Barre

Barre Common Area Rehabilitation Plan

1999

$37,800

Barre

Barre Common Area Cultural Landscape Report

2000

$15,000

Bedford

Wilson Mill Site Preservation Planning

2001

$4,500

Billerica

Talbot Oval Preservation Plan

2000

$10,000

Boston

Jamaica Pond Pinebank Landscape Restoration

1998

$100,000

Boston

Preservation Plan for Evergreen, Mount Hope and Fairview Cemeteries

1999

$46,500

Boston

Granary Burying Ground – Rehabilitation of Path System

2000

$43,000

Boston

Arborway Preservation Master Plan

2002

$62,000

Boston

Gravemarker Conservation in Dorchester North and Eliot Burying Grounds

2002

$62,500

Braintree

Elm Street Cemetery National Register Nomination

2000

$3,000

Brockton

D.W. Field Park Preservation Planning and National Register Nomination

1998

$20,000

Brookline

Allerton Overlook Restoration

1998

$100,000

Brookline

Hall's Pond Restoration

1999

$99,228

Brookline

Riverway Park Horticultural Assessment and Preservation Plan

2000

$25,000

Charlemont

Engineering and Accessibility Study – Fairground Grandstand

1999

$5,000

Chelsea

Garden Cemetery Preservation Plan

1998

$30,000

Chelsea

Rehabilitation of Winnisimmet Park in Chelsea Square

1999

$47,950

Chesterfield

Farmhouse Garden Preservation Plan

2001

$4,000

Clinton

Central Park – Reconstruction of Foster Fountain

2000

$30,000

Cohasset

Cohasset Common Landscape Preservation Plan

2002

$16,200

Concord

Melvin Memorial, Sleepy Hollow Cemetery –Preservation Plan

1999

$13,600

Concord

Melvin Memorial, Sleepy Hollow Cemetery –Restoration

2000

$34,689

Dennis

Dennis Village Cemetery Preservation Plan

2002

$15,000

Easton

Olmsted’s Rockery – Preservation Planning

1998

$15,000

Easton

Olmsted’s Rockery – Restoration, Phase I

2000

$100,000

Fairhaven

Fort Phoenix Accessibility Study and Plan

1999

$10,000

Fairhaven

Fort Phoenix Accessible Walk and Drainage Project

2001

$29,160

Falmouth

Falmouth Village Green Fence Replacement

1998

$27,000

Falmouth

Emerald Farm Preservation Planning and Interpretive Programming

2000

$2,431

Fitchburg

Monument Park Rehabilitation

2002

$153,335

Grafton

Grafton Common Preservation Plan

2000

$20,000

Groveland

Elm Park Preservation Plan

1999

$12,800

Groveland

Elm Park Restoration

2000

$50,000

Hadley

Preservation of Hadley’s Historic Cemeteries

1999

$28,000

Harvard

Hildreth House Landscape Preservation Master Plan

2002

$6,800

Hawley

Survey of Cemetery Headstones

1998

$1,800

Hawley

Survey of Cemetery Headstones, Phase II

1999

$1,680

Holyoke

Wistariahurst Museum Landscape Preservation Plan

1999

$24,500

Holyoke

Wistiriahurst Museum Formal Entry Rehabilitation

2001

$45,500

Hopedale

Bancroft Library Garden Preservation Plan

2000

$12,000

Lee

Lee Town Common Rehabilitation

1998

$100,000

Littleton

Old Burying Ground Preservation Plan and National Register Nomination

2000

$42,000

Lowell

Tyler Park Preservation Plan

1998

$15,000

Lowell

Tyler Park Rehabilitation

1999

$50,000

Lowell

Rogers Fort Hill Park Rehabilitation, Phase I

2001

$44,000

Lowell

Rogers Fort Hill Park Rehabilitation, Phase II

2002

$58,520

Lynn

Lynn Woods Reservation Roadways, Preservation Planning

1999

$10,000

Lynn

Lynn Woods Reservation Roadways Restoration

2000

$49,700

Marblehead

Fort Sewall Preservation Plan

1999

$8,640

Marblehead

Fort Sewall Interpretive Signage Project

2001

$9,720

Marlborough

Old Common Preservation Plan

1998

$20,000

Marlborough

Old Common Rehabilitation

1999

$100,000

Marlborough

National Register Nomination for Historic Cemeteries

2002

$12,000

Marshfield

Thomas-Webster Estate Preservation Plan and Emergency Stabilization

1998

$25,000

Marshfield

Thomas-Webster Estate Rehabilitation

2001

$46,690

Medfield

Dwight Derby House Cultural Landscape Report

1999

$8,960

Medford

Brooks Estate – Historic Core Landscape Plan

2000

$5,600

Medford

Brooks Estate – Historic Core Construction Documents

2001

$17,160

Melrose

Beebe Estate Landscape Rehabilitation

1998

$28,700

Middleborough

Oliver Mill Park Preservation Plan

2000

$10,000

Middleborough

Oliver Mill Park Landscape Stabilization

2001

$106,879

Millbury

Asa Waters Mansion Landscape Master Plan

2001

$6,800

Millville

Longfellow Municipal Center Preservation Plan

1999

$20,400

Milton

Milton Cemetery Landscape Preservation Plan and Main Entry Rehabilitation

2002

$18,750

Natick

John Eliot Historic District Landscape Preservation Plan

2000

$11,200

New Bedford

Buttonwood Park Maintenance Area Rehabilitation

1999

$40,000

New Bedford

Clasky Park Design Development

1999

$30,000

New Bedford

Clasky Park Rehabilitation

2000

$100,000

New Bedford

Buttonwood Park Preservation Project

2001

$90,000

New Marlborough

New Marlborough Cemetery Preservation

2002

$21,060

Newburyport

Bartlet Mall Preservation Plan

1998

$17,400

Newburyport

Bartlet Mall Promenade Restoration

2001

$38,118

Newton

Houghton Garden Rehabilitation

1999

$27,000

Newton

Newton's Early Burying Grounds Preservation Plan and National Register Nominations

2002

$6,480

North Adams

Hillside Cemetery Preservation Plan and National Register Nomination

1999

$20,000

North Adams

Hillside Cemetery Restoration, Phase I

2000

$100,000

North Adams

Hillside Cemetery Restoration, Phase II

2002

$50,000

North Andover

Stevens Estate at Osgood Hill – Landscape Preservation Plan

2001

$20,000

Orange

Memorial Park Rehabilitation

1998

$25,000

Provincetown

Winthrop Street Cemetery Preservation Plan and Rehabilitation

2001

$37,916

Provincetown

Winthrop Cemetery Rehabilitation, Phase II

2002

$54,166

Quincy

Mount Wollaston Cemetery Tree Replacement

1998

$50,000

Quincy

Merrymount Park Rehabilitation

2000

$50,000

Salem

Salem Common Restoration

2001

$20,000

Somerville

Nathan Tufts Park Preservation Plan

2000

$20,000

Somerville

Nathan Tufts Park Rehabilitation

2001

$200,000

Somerville

Milk Row Cemetery Preservation Master Plan

2002

$34,000

South Hadley

Sycamores Preservation Master Plan

2002

$20,400

Springfield

Van Horn Park Preservation Plan

1999

$35,000

Sterling

Chocksett Cemetery Project

2001

$10,000

Sunderland

Riverside Cemetery Project

2001

$9,000

Templeton

Templeton Common Burial Ground Project

2002

$14,000

Townsend

Townsend Town Common Rehabilitation

1999

$70,000

Waltham

Robert Treat Paine Estate Historic Landscape Restoration, Phase I

1999

$30,000

Waltham

Robert Treat Paine Estate Historic Landscape Restoration, Phase II

2000

$25,500

Ware

Grenville Park Historic Vista Restoration

1999

$10,500

Wendell

Wendell Town Common Rehabilitation, Phase I

1998

$50,000

Wendell

Wendell Town Common Rehabilitation, Phase II

1999

$34,650

West Bridgewater

War Memorial Park Preservation Plan and National Register Nomination

2002

$30,000

Westfield

Restoration of Grandmothers' Garden

1998

$6,000

Whitman

Whitman Park Landscape Preservation Plan and National Register Nomination

2001

$18,375

Whitman

Whitman Park Rehabilitation

2002

$200,000

Woburn

First Burial Ground Preservation Project

2002

$9,360

Worcester

The Preservation of Historic Trees in Hope Cemetery

2001

$93,900

Worthington

National Register Nomination and Preservation Planning for Three Cemeteries

2001

$7,000


Federal Standards for the Treatment of Cultural Landscapes

 



Rogers Fort Hill
park, Lowell


Maple Street
Cemetery, Adams


Oliver Mill Park,
Middleborough